10th Apr, 2025 11:00
TWO-DAY AUCTION: Fine Asian Art, Buddhism and Hinduism
86
A LARGE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ‘TWIN DRAGON’ DISK, BI, WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
Sold for €13,000
including Buyer's Premium
Expert authentication: Dr. Gu Fang has examined the present lot and guarantees its authenticity and the dating above. He assessed it as a piece of notably good quality. A signed and notarized copy of Dr. Gu's expertise, dated 6 January 2008 in the State of New York, accompanies this lot.
Dr. Gu Fang (born 1962) is an internationally renowned scholar of Chinese art and a leading authority on jades. He graduated from the Department of Archaeology at the prestigious Beijing University in 1986 and later studied at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he now serves as a Senior Fellow specializing in archaeological excavations and Chinese jade research. A former visiting scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he has authored several books on Chinese jades, including the 15-volume The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China (2007), one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, as well as Chinese Jade: The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China (2012).
China, 10th-8th century BC. Of flattened circular form with a large central aperture, exquisitely carved to each side in thread relief to depict a pair of stylized dragons. The semi-translucent stone is of a celadon color with russet patches and veins, beige specks, and areas of calcification.
Provenance: From a private collection in New York, United States. Two labels inscribed with inventory numbers, ‘57657’ and ‘2372’.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Ancient wear, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, nibbling, one minor old chip. The jade with natural fissures, some of which have developed into small hairline cracks, and a deeply encrusted crack from prolonged burial.
Weight: 999 g
Dimensions: Diameter 24.6 cm
Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related jade bi dated 10th-8th century BC, 24.4 cm diameter, in the Seattle Art Museum, accession number 39.11. Compare a closely related jade bi dated to the Western Zhou dynasty, 16.1 cm diameter, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, accession number 新00093174.
Expert authentication: Dr. Gu Fang has examined the present lot and guarantees its authenticity and the dating above. He assessed it as a piece of notably good quality. A signed and notarized copy of Dr. Gu's expertise, dated 6 January 2008 in the State of New York, accompanies this lot.
Dr. Gu Fang (born 1962) is an internationally renowned scholar of Chinese art and a leading authority on jades. He graduated from the Department of Archaeology at the prestigious Beijing University in 1986 and later studied at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he now serves as a Senior Fellow specializing in archaeological excavations and Chinese jade research. A former visiting scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he has authored several books on Chinese jades, including the 15-volume The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China (2007), one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, as well as Chinese Jade: The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China (2012).
China, 10th-8th century BC. Of flattened circular form with a large central aperture, exquisitely carved to each side in thread relief to depict a pair of stylized dragons. The semi-translucent stone is of a celadon color with russet patches and veins, beige specks, and areas of calcification.
Provenance: From a private collection in New York, United States. Two labels inscribed with inventory numbers, ‘57657’ and ‘2372’.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Ancient wear, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, nibbling, one minor old chip. The jade with natural fissures, some of which have developed into small hairline cracks, and a deeply encrusted crack from prolonged burial.
Weight: 999 g
Dimensions: Diameter 24.6 cm
Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related jade bi dated 10th-8th century BC, 24.4 cm diameter, in the Seattle Art Museum, accession number 39.11. Compare a closely related jade bi dated to the Western Zhou dynasty, 16.1 cm diameter, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, accession number 新00093174.
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